When Ellen's younger brother and sister were only 4 and 6 years old, they were found standing over the bloody corpses of their parents. Twelve years later, they are released from a juvenile mental institution into Ellen's custody. Unwilling to endanger her relationship with her fiance' or her position as a live-in assistant to his wealthy, eccentric stepmother, Ellen spins a precarious web of lies around her family's troubled past.
—Molly Rose Steed